Tonight should provide a clearer test. The Magic (19-39) will host the Miami Heat (24-31) at Amway Center.

The Heat are dangerous even without Chris Bosh, who won’t play again this season because of blood clots. New Heat point guard Goran Dragic is a threat to penetrate into the paint, and Dragic and Hassan Whiteside can become a formidable pick-and-roll tandem once they develop their timing. Dwyane Wade and Luol Deng are dangerous offensive players, too.

As Jim Croce once sang, “You don’t tug on Superman’s cape. You don’t spit into the wind. You don’t pull the mask off that ole Lone Ranger. And you don’t mess around with Jim.”

And in The Philippines, you certainly don’t insult national hero Manny Pacquaio.

Former Magic center Daniel Orton found that out recently – and it cost him his job.

At 5-foot-6, Pacquaio, 36, occasionally plays point guard for the Kia Carnival of the Philippines Basketball Association, adding professional basketball player to his other endeavors: championship boxer, Congressman, actor and singer.

Everybody in the PBA goes along with it – until Orton didn’t.

After Orton’s team – the Purefoods Star Hotshots – faced Pacquaio’s team, Orton said having The Pac Man play was a “joke.”

Uncertainty won’t hover over the Orlando Magic when they resume their regular season tonight in their first game after the All-Star break.

The Magic didn’t make any moves before the NBA trade deadline expired Thursday afternoon. Barring a buyout or two, the same 15 players who began the season on Orlando’s roster will be the same 15 players who will end the season on the roster.

“I think it’s good that we kept the team together,” center Nikola Vucevic said. “We know each other well. We’ve played with each other for awhile now. So I think it’s going to help us going forward. We’ve just got to rely on ourselves.

“Nothing changed for us, so we’ve just got to move forward.”

The Magic, of course, already have endured a seismic shift this season. On Feb. 5, head coach Jacque Vaughn and two assistant coaches were fired. At that time, James Borrego was named the team’s interim coach.

On Tuesday, Magic GM Rob Hennigan informed Borrego that Borrego will finish out the season as Orlando's interim...

Now that the Magic will go with James Borrego as their (interim) coach for the rest of the season, here are 5 things that the team needs to do:

BORREGO A GO? Give Borrego a chance to keep the job. While the Magic are expected to look for a proven head coach to replace Jacque Vaughn, they should see how the team responds to Borrego, 37, now the league’s youngest coach. The Magic are 2-2 under Borrego and were 30 seconds from 3-1 before blowing the game against the Chicago Bulls. A lot of future great coaches were no-name assistants. I think Borrego’s chances of staying are remote. Even if he somehow remains close to .500, the Magic need the sort of P.R. jolt that the hiring of, say, Scott Skiles or Mark Jackson presents.

TOBIAS OR NOT TOBIAS? With the trade deadline looming Thursday, GM Rob Hennigan needs to trade Tobias Harris if the club has no intentions on paying him close to what they paid center Nik Vucevic. Vucevic will make around $13 million per year when his four-year deal...

The kind of risk the Magic could take to improve their defense might present itself: Troubled Milwaukee Bucks big man Larry Sanders is expected to be available soon.

The Bucks, according to ESPN, are in talks with Sanders to buy him out of the remaining two years of his contract.

The Magic desperately need a rim protector.

Sanders, 26, averaged 2.8 blocks for the Bucks during the 2012-13 season to finish seventh in Defensive Player of the Year voting.

He also averaged 9.8 points and 9.5 rebounds that season, turning in his best year as a pro playing for Scott Skiles. Skiles has been mentioned as a candidate to replace Jacque Vaughn as Orlando’s permanent coach, if you want to connect any dots.

But Sanders played in just 50 games the next two seasons because of off-court issues and injuries, and has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Sanders, 6-11, 230 pounds, was suspended in mid-January without pay for violating the league’s anti-drug program. He has not returned to the...